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The Flare editor is an unqualified dog. It is unquestionably the worst / slowest / buggiest / most keyboard hostile editor in the entire content-authoring industry.
Do you have the same experience running Flare on other computers?

Yup.

I should note that the issues I report to Madcap are almost ...

- Shift-end does not work properly to select text (bug #43595)

That one at least is fixed in v7, depending on what you expect it to do.
In v7 it will select text to the edge of of the the window (like Word), as opposed to selecting text to the end of tag (as it did in v6).

Dude: It is NOT ...

I submitted an enhancement request for conditional builds, by the way. Maybe 7?

This is pretty easy to do using either:

- A perforce trigger (if you use perforce version control)

or

- A continuous integration system (cruise control, finalbuilder, whatever) that can monitor your SCM system for ...

Why do you still use Flare? Based on your comments it is the worst piece of software you ever encountered.

The Flare architecture and output flexibility is great, and I use several outputs (I compile 15 or so outputs from my project).

The Flare editor is an unqualified dog. It is unquestionably ...

Why do you need to make 2 or 3 copies of each target? You build from three machines but are all three publishing to different locations? Why publish to three locations instead of one final one that all three build machines point to?

I won't bother you with the build environment here. It is big ...

I don't know if RoboHelp runs on the .NET platform, but you could try uninstalling .NET and reinstalling it. Just make sure you get the version required by Flare, which varies depending on which version of Flare you're running.


.NET has nothing to do with it... if Flare installs and runs, .NET ...

You can specify different publishing parameters in each target and then specify which target(s) to build/publish using the command line. Search in Flare v7 help on "madbuild" and it'll return you the topic that discusses the options.

That means making 2 or 3 copies of 7 targets....

Does not ...

I did submit a bug report...

I have been submitting four to fourteen bug reports PER WEEK for two months now.

I spend almost as much time submitting bugs to madcap as I spend using Flare.

Not fun.

Editor: Pressing ctrl-G takes 20-30% CPU and 2-4 seconds to pop up the Insert Picture dialog

Total drag.

Flare's XML Editor is very, very different from a typical text editor, and it will not be as fast. It does real-time transforms of the text file into the WYSIWYG look. That costs resources, so when you're arrowing around in Flare, Flare is basically retransforming a bunch of XML, not simply ...

My keyboard repeat rate is maybe 40cps or so, from a test I did in Notepad. As a comparison, I can scroll through a sample paragraph of text in about 7 seconds in Notepad (with no noticeable CPU usage), but the same paragraph takes about 17 sec. in Flare.

Yes, it appears that Flare does not use ...

Hi,

After upgrading to Flare 7, I notice that while navigating through text using the arrow keys in the Flare XML editor window, the navigation goes kind of slowly and seems to eat up a lot of CPU on my system.

+1

The Flare 7 editor is really slow for me also.

Painfully slow to:

- open ...

Andrew wrote: For example, some people have reported increasing speed by turning off "Show Conditional Indicators."

Non starter... I can't use flare with this turned off, have tons of conditional stuff.... (I tried... no way!)

See the picture below.

This is fyi!

Say there!

I build on three machines (my desktop, my laptop, and on the build system). I use publishing, batch targets, the whole kit.

I need to be able to control the publish output directory build by build.....

Ideally, madbuild would take a param, -publishdir or something, so I could control ...

Index keywords are inserted in the topics, so you have to go to that specific topic and delete the keyword from there.

Got it.

As I understand it, the index is built from tags in the topics themselves, right?

Are there any other places that hold links from keywords to topics?

I am trying to ...

In 6.1 at least, you can remove a topic from an index keyword using the Index pane. Expand the keyword to see the list of topics assigned to it, right-click the topic and select Unassign Topic.

It is the same in v7... in theory!

Problem is that the above flow has no effect... and I am unable to ...

I have a keyword with two topics associated.

I right click and select "remove" to remove one of the topics.... and nothing happens.

I am unable to figure out how to get this topic off of the keyword.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Hey, poking around, just found this:

http://public.perforce.com/wiki/Perforc ... ne_Recipes

more:

http://www.exemplics.com/node/2

Some useful stuff there.

I should also mention that there is a great ruby lib for perforce. If you have ruby skills in house, this is a great way to go. (We don't.... or we would go this route.)

I find scripting to be a LARGE productivity gain. Yes, I can click around p4v, but if I am making the same clicks every day, or ...

PS - samjones6 - would you be willing to share your Powershell scripts?

Our stuff isn't generically useful, I am afraid. It is quick and dirty for internal use.

Also, we found getting the perforce environment working with powershell to be a challenge!

The key question is: How to get from ...

Madcap Support confirmed that the only reliable way to share projects and files is to bind the project to source control and always to go through source control. At our company, the source control system we already have is Perforce.

From what you write, I agree that version control is THE way to ...

I need to know if it is a Perforce issue or a Flare issue.

As I describe above, this problem looks seriously like a Perforce issue. I have had this exact issue with other utf-?? files from other tools. The solution was to upgrade the Perforce client apps, as perforce was pushing the files to utf ...

At least 13 files have these characters inserted at the beginning of the files.

Hmmmm, at least the file is under version control so can be easily rolled back!

One thing to check:

The Flare files are (I believe) utf-8

It is important that the Perforce client be a relatively fresh version (I ...

Andrew wrote:

samjones6 wrote:I use the scroll wheel, or drag the scroll bar

Of course that works....

But I don't use the mouse when editing... ever.